Short Orders: Dirty Water, Millennium, Belga, and Sequoia Diner

Erstwhile SF restaurant Millennium brings its vegan menu to a new location in Rockridge.

Dirty WaterMid-Market
It may sound like a sewage treatment facility, but the Twitter building’s latest food tenant is instead a restaurant-bar-brewery armed with a so-called paleo-friendly menu. What that translates to is meat (like a slightly dry tri-tip sandwich) served on heavy plates—though there’s also foliage like “dirty greens,” a pile of lettuce and crispy kale doused with a surprisingly addictive charred-citrus vinaigrette. 1355 Market St. (near 10th St.) 888-393-0530
—Rebecca Flint Marx

MillenniumRockridge
After losing its San Francisco home of more than 20 years, this pioneering vegan restaurant has relocated to Rockridge—but Eric Tucker’s menu has remained refined, creative, and animal-free. A red-corn masa tamale is arrayed in a sweet corn–poblano stew, while gochuiang and kimchee take tempeh for a Korean joyride. Though the seasoning isn’t always as assertive as it could be, the food has an earthy appeal. 5912 College Ave. (near Chabot Rd.), Oakland, 510-735-9459
—R.F.M.

BelgaCow Hollow
Prolific restaurateur Adriano Paganini (Beretta, Delarosa) has turned his attention to Belgium, bringing its moules frites to a sprawling space accented by red banquettes and a surfeit of hard surfaces that build a deafening wall of sound. The food has quieter virtues: Though a wheat beer–heavy broth smothers the flavor of pan-roasted mussels, a salad of bibb lettuce, radishes, and chèvre is sweet simplicity incarnate. 2000 Union St. (at Buchanan St.), 415-872-7350
—R.F.M.